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| From | Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? |
| Date | 2015-03-26 13:48 -0700 |
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On 3/24/2015 6:39 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com
<snip>
> float (("%6.3f" % x)[-4:])
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> In general you lose a lot of precision this way...
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Even more if you use %6.1 -- but feel free to flavor to taste. :)
Emile
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